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(NEW YORK) — Scientists have factored damage to the ocean into the social cost of carbon for the first time — finding it nearly doubles the economic impact from climate change.
Ocean damage from climate change — dubbed the “blue” social cost of carbon — causes the global cost of carbon dioxide emissions to society to nearly double, according to new findings by researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego.
The researchers calculated an additional $46.2 per ton of carbon dioxide — amounting to a total of $97.2 per ton of carbon dioxide, a 91% increase, according to the study, published Thursday in Nature Climate Change. Global carbon dioxide emissions were estimated to be 41.6 billion tons in 2024, according to the Global Carbon Budget, implying nearly $2 trillion in ocean-related damages in one year that are currently missing from standard climate cost estimates.
The ocean has never been accounted into the economic harm caused by greenhouse gas emissions before, the researchers said. The ocean was largely overlooked in the standard accounting of the social cost of carbon, despite widespread degradation to coral reef ecosystems, losses from fisheries and damage to coastal infrastructure — all of which are “well documented” and have impacted millions of people globally.
In addition, the distribution of impacts is “highly unequal” across the globe, according to the paper. Islands and small economies will be disproportionately affected, given the regions’ dependence on seafood and nutrition, according to the study.
Scripps researchers felt the need to put a price tag on the harm that climate change causes to the ocean in order to properly inform key decision-makers with a cost-benefit analysis, said environmental economist and assistant professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico Bernardo Bastien-Olvera, who led the study during a postdoctoral fellowship at Scripps Oceanography.
“The ocean was the big missing piece in these models that calculate the climate impacts on humans,” Bastien-Olvera told ABC News.
Human-amplified climate change damages oceans by warming temperatures and altering its chemistry, according to the Scripps researchers. The changes then alter the distribution of species and damages ecosystems such as reefs, mangroves, seagrass beds and kelp forests.
Coastal infrastructure, such as shipping ports, can also be damaged by increased flooding and stronger storms.
The social cost of carbon is an economic metric used in climate policy to estimate the damages that a ton of carbon dioxide causes to humans today, Bastien-Olvera said.
The researchers estimated the social cost of carbon by using integrated assessment models to run different future scenarios of how people and the economy might behave during the next century, also incorporating the potential climate impacts on systems such as coral reefs, mangroves, fisheries and seaports, Bastien-Olvera said.
The accounting was further developed by looking at straightforward market-use values, such as decreased fisheries revenue or diminished trade, as well as non-market values such as health impacts of reduced nutrition availability from impacted fisheries and recreational opportunities at the ocean, according to Scripps.
The research accounted for reduced availability of key nutrients in seafood, including calcium, omega-3 fatty acids, protein and iron — the loss of which can be linked to increases in disease risk and additional deaths.
The economic cost is caused by losses in the fishing industry, damage to coastal communities and impacts to systems that help fortify those communities, like mangroves and reefs.
The social cost of carbon is considered a more accurate accounting of harm from climate change than other calculations used as the basis of carbon credits or carbon offsets to travelers, according to Scripps.
People gather during protest on January 8, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. Demonstrations have been ongoing since December, triggered by soaring inflation and the collapse of the rial, and have expanded into broader demands for political change. (Anonymous/Getty Images)
(LONDON) — Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization confirmed on Thursday morning that flights were back in operation over the country, according to a statement carried by Iranian state-aligned media.
Iran issued a notice, known as a NOTAM, on Wednesday closing its airspace to all flights except international civil arrivals and departures with prior permission from Iran’s aviation authorities. The NOTAM was initially extended through 10:30 p.m. ET but then expired.
The NOTAM was issued after U.S. President Donald Trump hinted at possible action against Iran and in support of anti-government protests which have roiled the country in recent weeks.
As of Wednesday, 18 days of protests and a resulting crackdown by security forces had seen 2,615 deaths and 18,470 people arrested, according to the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). Among the dead were 13 children and 14 non-protesting civilians, HRANA said.
On the government side, HRANA said it had confirmed the deaths of 153 members of the security forces.
Another 882 additional deaths remain under investigation, HRANA said.
The HRANA data relies on the work of activists inside and outside the country. ABC News cannot independently verify its numbers.
Protests have been spreading across the country since late December. The first marches took place in downtown Tehran, with participants demonstrating against rising inflation and the falling value of the national currency, the rial. As the protests spread, they took on a more explicitly anti-government tone.
The subsequent security crackdown has included a sustained national internet blackout, which — according to online monitoring group NetBlocks — had been in place for 156 hours as of Thursday morning.
On Wednesday, Cloudflare’s threat-intelligence unit said in a statement that it had “observed Iranian authorities targeting Instagram accounts with tools that perform bulk extraction of follower lists and account activity.”
Estimates of the death toll from the protests have varied, with the internet and communications blackout making it difficult to establish clear figures.
Stephane Dujarric, the spokesperson for United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, told reporters at a briefing on Wednesday, “We’ve seen numbers vary from 2,000 to 12,000. All of those numbers are horrendous, but I don’t have a number to share with you.”
Trump has repeatedly threatened military action against the government in Tehran — which is headed by its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — in response to violence against protesters.
Trump said Wednesday that he had been informed that the “killing” in Iran had stopped and that anticipated executions of arrested protesters would not take place.
The information was coming from “very important sources on the other side,” Trump said during an event in the Oval Office on Wednesday. “We’ve been told on good authority, and I hope it’s true. Who knows, right?” he added.
Asked by a reporter if this means that military action was now off the table, Trump responded, “We’re going to watch and see what the process is. But we were given a very good statement by people that are aware of what’s going on.”
On Tuesday, Trump had addressed protesters on social media, urging “Iranian Patriots” to “TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!!” He added, “HELP IS ON ITS WAY.”
Khamenei and top Iranian officials have said they are willing to engage with the economic grievances of protesters, though have framed the unrest as driven by “rioters” and “terrorists” sponsored by foreign nations — prime among them the U.S. and Israel — and supported by foreign infiltrators.
Iranian officials have also threatened retaliatory strikes against U.S. and Israeli targets in the event of any outside intervention.
On Wednesday, a U.S. official confirmed to ABC News that some personnel had been advised to leave al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar due to increased tensions in the region.
Meanwhile, Tehran has signaled an intent to proceed with expedited trials and executions for those arrested during the protests.
The head of Iran’s judiciary, Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei, said Wednesday, “If we want to do a job, we should do it now. If we want to do something, we have to do it quickly,” in a video shared online by Iranian state television, according to The Associated Press
“If it becomes late, two months, three months later, it doesn’t have the same effect,” Mohseni-Ejei said.
Speaking to Fox News on Wednesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi acknowledged that “hundreds” of people had been killed and again characterized the protests as an “Israeli plot” and a “terrorist operation.”
Araghchi said that the protests had died down and that the government is “in full control.”
(NEW YORK) — As forests shrink and wildlife disappears, mosquitoes are increasingly turning to people for their blood meals, a shift that raises real concerns about the potential spread of diseases that affect humans.
A new study published in the journal Frontiers suggests these buzzing, biting insects are playing a growing role in the increased transmission of Zika, yellow fever, dengue and other diseases that mosquitoes pass on to people, thanks in part to disappearing habitats.
Deforestation, which is the widespread clearing of forests, and other human activity has vastly reduced local populations of plants and animals while increasing human populations in the same areas, according to the study.
“Mosquitoes that are normally feeding on other hosts within the habitat can shift to humans if the habitat is no longer suitable for those hosts and they leave,” Laura Harrington, a Ph.D.-level professor of entomology at Cornell University, told ABC News.
Human blood was widely found in nine types of mosquitoes in two formerly uninhabited areas in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, preliminary study results found. This area was once a part of the Atlantic Forest that covered 502,000 square miles. Today, it has shrunk to 29% of its original size as a result of deforestation and development, according to the final study.
The researchers point to past studies showing that areas with heavier deforestation have a higher mosquito abundance and higher rates of mosquito-borne disease because disturbed habitats favor species that thrive near people. At the same time, reduced biodiversity removes animals that can dilute disease transmission, making humans more likely to become the primary blood source.
Sérgio Lisboa Machado, a co-author of the paper and a professor at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, said mosquitoes are opportunists who don’t venture far to find food.
“So they start searching for humans because mosquitoes rarely fly very long distances,” he told ABC News. “They are not going to pay a lot of energy to find [other food sources].”
More than 17% of all infectious diseases are caused by vector-borne diseases, meaning a disease that’s transmitted to humans by a living organism, such as mosquitoes, ticks, and flies, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports. These biting insects cause more than 700,000 deaths globally.
Mosquitoes alone transmit dozens of serious diseases to humans, according to the WHO, which consequently considers them the deadliest animals on Earth.
Female mosquitoes are the culprit. They must drink blood to get the protein and iron they need to develop their eggs, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
There is a “reproductive drive for them to feed on blood, and if there’s no other host there, most mosquitoes would feed on a human,” Harrington told ABC News.
Male mosquitoes buzz, but they don’t bite, instead dining on nectar and plant sugars.
There are 3,500 mosquito species globally, Harrington said, noting that there are only a handful that truly prefer the taste of human blood over other animals. When given a choice, only a small fraction of mosquito species regularly seek out humans.
“It’s something that we’ve known for a long time,” Harrington said. “This notion that manipulating the landscape can alter mosquito feeding patterns and sometimes shift feeding patterns towards humans.”
If you want to know more about Gavin Adcock‘s love life, all you need to do is listen to his breakthrough hit, “Never Call Again.”
Even though the track’s laced with heartbreak, Gavin reveals he managed to find a happy ending with the person who inspired it.
“I was dating somebody and we broke up,” he tells ABC Audio. “We were kinda in different head spaces, and then [I] tried to forget about ’em. And stuff just kept coming up where I couldn’t forget about her, and we ended up getting back together.”
Even his girlfriend’s favorite food haunted him.
“If you take somebody on a date, like my girlfriend — she’s the same girl — she loves chicken parm,” Gavin says. “If you go take somebody on a first date and they order chicken parm, you go straight to thinking about your ex.”
“It’s just all the things that make you think of that one person that you’d love to forget about, but you just can’t because you love ’em and they’re part of your life,” he says.
“Never Call Again” is from Gavin’s Own Worst Enemy album, which came out in August.
Rene Angelil and Celine Dion arrive at the premiere of the show ‘Veronic Voices’ at Bally’s Las Vegas on June 28, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Gabe Ginsberg/WireImage)
Wednesday marked the 10th anniversary of the death of René Angélil, longtime manager and husband of Céline Dion. The Canadian icon remembered René, to whom she was married for 22 years, with a touching Instagram post.
“Mon amour, ten years without you feels like just a day, and yet each day feels like a decade,” she wrote. “Ten years without your caress, and yet every day I feel your touch…We miss you more than we can bear, but you taught us to be strong.”
She concluded, “We love you more, every day and every year,” signing the message on behalf of herself and the couple’s three sons: RC (René-Charles), Nelson and EddyAngélil.
Céline included a photo of a piano adorned with a large framed picture of René. The manager, who passed away on Jan. 14, 2016, after a battle with throat cancer, had known Céline since she was 12 years old, and the two married in 1994.
It was a touching tribute from Céline, who has spent the past couple of weeks embracing TikTok, where she’s been sharing funny videos with fans.
The songs that Olivia Dean and Tate McRae wrote for movies last year didn’t make the cut for the Golden Globes or the short list for the Oscar nominations. However, their efforts have been rewarded with nominations for the 2026 Guild of Music Supervisors Awards.
The annual awards honor outstanding music supervision in movies, TV, video games and commercials, but there’s also a category called best song written and/or recorded for a film. “Just Keep Watching,” which Tate co-wrote and recorded for the Brad Pitt film F1, is nominated; so is “It Isn’t Perfect But It Might Be,” which Olivia co-wrote and recorded for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.
Other songs in the category include two tracks from Sinners, one from the movie Materialists and “Dear Me,” sung by Kesha and written by Diane Warren, for the documentary Diane Warren: Relentless.
The 2026 Guild of Music Supervisors Awards will take place Feb. 28 in Los Angeles.
“Just Keep Watching” has also earned Tate a Grammy nomination, in the category of best dance/pop recording. Olivia is nominated, too, in the category of best new artist. Those awards will be handed out Feb. 1.
Gavin Rossdale of Bush performs onstage during a concert at Utilita Arena Cardiff on November 06, 2025 in Cardiff, Wales. (Mike Lewis Photography/Redferns)
Bush recently announced their Land of Milk and Honey tour, named after the single off the band’s latest album, 2025’s I Beat Loneliness, which hit #2 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay chart.
As for why the song “The Land of Milk and Honey” connected with listeners, frontman Gavin Rossdale isn’t exactly sure. He does know, however, that it adheres to Bush’s approach of writing songs they like and think their audience will like.
“For us, we just try and make music that appeals to us,” Rossdale tells ABC Audio. “Unlike what [producer] Rick Rubin said about how you don’t think of your audience when you make music, I don’t connect to that.”
Rossdale explains that he’s not necessarily thinking of the fans when he’s writing lyrics, but in putting the songs together, he’s conscious of what will connect with the Bush faithful.
“There’s an inner core of, like, Bush Army people that you see all the time,” Rossdale says. “So, the idea that I would make a record and just, like, forget they … exist is a bit disingenuous.”
“I do think of the people that love the band, because that’s what it’s all about,” he adds. “Without an audience, there is no exchange.”
Rossdale will come face-to-face with those fans on the Land of Milk and Honey tour, which launches in April. Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. local time.
Sir Ringo Starr and Sir Paul McCartney attend the Stella McCartney Winter 2024 show during Paris Fashion Week on March 04, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Dave Benett/Getty Images for Stella McCartney)
Personal items and memorabilia from artists like Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Foreigner and Phil Collins are among the pieces up for grabs as part of this year’s MusiCares Charity Relief Auction, held every year to support the charitable arm of the Recording Industry.
Among the items being offered: a signed and personalized copy of McCartney’s 2021 book The Lyrics: 1965 to Present; a drum head and a T-shirt signed by Starr; a giclee print of Collins, signed by Collins; and an Epiphone Les Paul Special electric guitar in satin black, autographed by the members of Foreigner.
The auction also includes: a Hotel California painting with photos, autographed by former Eagles guitarist Don Felder; a leather jacket signed by Culture Club’s Boy George; wristwatches made from clothing owned by Iggy Pop and Nirvana‘s Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic; a jacket worn by Cher in promos for Saturday Night Live; and a Gibson “Jessica” Les Paul Standard guitar signed by Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash.
The auction will take place live at the Recording Academy in Santa Monica, California, and online at JuliensAuctions.com on Feb. 1 at 2 p.m. ET. The proceeds will fund MusiCares‘ mission to help music professionals who need financial support in times of crisis.
